media and legal pressure forced washington to concede the number of hunger strikers had gone tunneled days higher than first admitted but it denies more than a hundred inmates are starving themselves. washington has put on hold the final phase of its controversial european missile shield due to a lack of cash instead decided to focus on ball string is defenses against all the pentagon says is the threat posed by north korea. and the latter in the capital riga plays host to an annual march by over a thousand and narsi veterans who served in the air so sparking outrage both inside the country and abroad. the thing. around the world around the

clock this is our see with national and international news live from moscow my name is you'd actually thanks for joining us here. the u.s. military has denied claims prisoners at guantanamo bay detention center are engaged in a mass hunger strike that's despite the lawyers of more than one hundred detainees claim their clients have gone without food for more than a month so it's been reported that the inmates most of whom were cleared for release years ago began starving themselves after prison guards desecrated their korans so gone tunnel spokesperson captain robert durand denied the allegations saying only that the number of detainees refusing all food has risen to fourteen and according to durand some of the strikers are being force fed and the one has ended up in hospital a lot for the inmates told r.t. the authorities denials cannot be trusted as the only one to downplay the crisis. pal they are defining hunger strikers that is also one clear i think that went on

a mo is being very careful in the way that they're they're denying these claims they're saying the number of men who have refused all through the number of men who are being to. these kinds of things there is a question about exactly how the authorities are defining hunger strikers and determining when when they need to be that our understanding is that based on previous standards the determination of who is a hunger striker is a discretionary determination that kuantan a moment makes if the definition of hunger striker is entirely in their control and it is a matter of their discretion that that explains how they are able to say that there are no more than a handful of men on hunger strike. and gone time officials claim most of the alleged hunger strikers are only refusing regular meals while still smoking but lawyers who have been to the base say they're shocked by the deteriorating

condition of the detainees and despite the outcry the mainstream media continues to shun the story as a g.'s marine apart now reports. when the us joined the united nations human rights council back in two thousand and nine president barack obama announced his intention to close the guantanamo bay detention center now as the island prison enters its twelfth year of operation one hundred sixty three years are still languishing there and over forty one hundred thirty are on a life threatening hunger strike the story has been denied by washington and essentially ignored by mainstream media now is r t first reported on tuesday lawyers for the get more prisoners say the men began their hunger strike on february sixth to protest the alleged confiscation of their personal items including letters personal photos bed sheets razors and also the a legit sacrilegious handling of their kranz during cell searches now the center

for constitutional rights says that they've received reports of detainees coughing blood losing consciousness and being hospitalized attorneys say that if the strike enters its forty fifth day that participants can experience hearing loss and potential blindness now lawyers for the get more prisoners have sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to help end the mass hunger strike. in the meantime organizations like the red cross have made attempts to check in on the inmates here's what a representative told r.t. the current tensions in guantanamo as far as we can see. are really the result of the uncertainty. to defeat. to the.

most of them. and so has been our position there needs to be a clear legal framework and a transparent. same goes for those detainees and it's to be transparent and fair to alleviate the strains of media and motional mental strain of this uncertainty triggers for the detainees of the one hundred sixty six detainees languishing at get mo more than half eighty six to be exact have been cleared for release now this week the u.n. said that the us is of violating international human rights law by indefinitely holding prisoners at guantanamo without charge the human rights council is urging washington to quote bring an end to these illegal practices by either prosecuting prisoners in civilian court or releasing them reporting from new york marina point i am heartsick. and on compilers as dr mark mason says that the majority of detainees should be immediately set free and only about six of them should stand

trial outrage being imprisoned in what can be characterized as nothing less than the american media will torture chamber is nothing less than that we get from the u.s. government a long list of false terms euphemisms such as detainee and rendition but we have here conditions were applied in sixty six people or imprisoned more than half have been cleared they should be out on the streets free today maybe six should be in a court of law like tomorrow morning dressing specific charges with appropriate opportunity to access to the defense attorneys right this is the condition we have a medieval torture chamber here. so detainees are how they've gone time and definitely without charge or trial and some are not permitted to leave despite being cleared for release and morag colonels was once among them held on groundless

allegations and set free without an apology and he shared with alfie the details of abuse and torture he suffered at ground. i have been myself tortured and different kind of. the laws. the only reason why they brought us to guantanamo was because there's no any human rights existing over there like in prisons. and that's mean they could. do and make with us whatever they like to do and. they specially tortured me to force me for signing papers and every time when i refused they kept just touching me in different kind of face just try to really all kind of way to break us in i saw. they tried psychological ways and physical torture to break the detainees and the

same way with myself. every time if you refused to do anything they torture to punish you for this i must have got tortured by electroshocks and waterboarding and stuff like that but i have seen also. kids lights nine years too if you saw the kids inside the camp and of course it was for me more difficult to to watch some of those kids how they get getting beaten up in front of me and it was for me really hard to get tortured myself. and you can also have to over to the dot com to give us your opinion on gone tanabe and that we're asking who you're saying is responsible for the notorious descension center remaining open after more than eleven years and here are the options we offer you that so perhaps you think the us is to blame for failing to close the facility despite promising to do so eight years ago thought oh maybe that hubert should never have leaves the base to america

in the first place also our other countries at fault for refusing to take gun tunnel in made spot or indeed is the terrorist threat that hangs over the us the main reason the facility is still in operation and here is the latest results of paul so actually they show that the vast majority of you blame washington for not keeping promises and almost equally small numbers of you think others are responsible for what's happening at guantanamo bay served to her to r.t. dot com and cast your vote if you haven't done it yet. our cameraman working for us he's our big sister channel in egypt has been attacked with at stake while filming activists drawing graffiti on walls the incident happened next to the headquarters of the muslim brotherhood party in the capital cairo and we got these pictures from the syrian army news channel they were filmed directly after the assault in which all his camera was also stolen they injured man

was immediately rushed to the nearest hospital where they when he where he needed stitches them so the crew says the tigers may have been islam its police arrived at the scene clashed with the activists and used tear gas to disperse the crowd egypt is currently in a state of unrest with anti-government protests across the country. distribution of defiance washington council's a key phrase of its european missile defense shield right after the break and he looks at why the u.s. suddenly decided to deploy more and to missile interceptors on a specific cost instead. well. it's technology innovations all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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abandoned the final stage of its european on to missile shield saying it doesn't have the cash to pay for it instead of the pentagon is going to deploy additional interceptors and only its pacific coast according to the u.s. defense secretary of the move is a response to the threat posed by north korea becoming a state where some protested a fed nuclear bomb well she's going to have the details for us. looks like the nuclear threat coming from north korea is now considered far more dangerous by the us than any potential risk coming from iran at least it was pyongyang as missile threats that u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagel cited as the prime reason for beefing up missile capacity as an already existing base in alaska and placing an additional rater in japan at the same time washington officials announced plans to scrap the final phase of a defense shield in eastern europe which would have seen interceptors capable of destroying most of russia's nuclear missiles and that has been a huge point of contention between moscow and washington for quite some time now in

fact going back to march of last year the infamous exchange between obama and then president mr medvedev in seoul that the nuclear security summit with the american president saying he will have more flexibility on the issue after the elections so we could speculate this could very well be the u.s. president sticking to his promises but this doesn't mean russia now has nothing to worry about after all japan and alaska aren't exactly far from his borders and anyway there are still plans to build some facilities in eastern europe though on a smaller scale than originally planned. and that's as pyongyang reportedly threatens to attack north korean islands along the disputed maritime border is the latest threat to emerge from north korea after the u.n. imposed fresh sanctions over the country's third nuclear weapons test and former m i five agent on a mission and believes this situation plays into americans' hands allowing it to gain more influence in the pacific region. what we're looking at at this point is

north korea being a useful idiot a pretext for america to defend a resource rich part of the world and when i was in my five the one thing we were always taught in terms of assessing a threat from any sort of source or country was one to have the capability and today we have the intentions now of course north korea is very loudly said to have the intention to try will target america but they certainly don't have the capability at this point and even if they were to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles the nearest base for america they would hit only alaska but north korea's always been much more belligerent i think iran and this is the assessment of the entire u.s. intelligence community which was iran would stop trying to develop any sort of nuclear weapon if they see it in two thousand and three and this has been stood up time and time again since two thousand and seven so we all know that iran is not a real threat to america's interests we all know it's not a threat to the west and this fake shield they were trying to provide to eastern

europe because they would be in range of a need is all that iran might want to launch was just a fake ploy or think it was used as an excuse so it's interesting now that the focus is moving to an overtly aggressive but very small and capable country away from iran. this is the last year and coming up shortly the cost of living as britain for fires to embrace new budget cuts come april we'll take a closer look at what the so-called bedroom tax will cause the poorest people in society. that's later but now cyprus has secured a ten billion euro bailout from euro zone finance ministers to avoid bankruptcy but people there are not particularly happy with the deal in return for the rescue package they're facing a ten percent levy on their savings to boost the budget hours after the deal was announced people started lining up at a.t.m.'s to cash out before the levee takes effect and one man was so frustrated he parked his bulldozer in front of a bank apparently threatening to break came and over about what had. trying to make

a single friend the deal may set a dangerous precedent. it's a very tough brows because so what has been agreed upon now means that on average there will be something like an eight percent tax because there's a difference between small and large in the terms of taxation which is of course a huge shock to the cypriot economy in terms of the purchasing power of the people and one of the immediate consequences of this of this measure will be that the recession which is already quite severe inside will be gone much worse but let's not forget that. this also is a message to other countries because what has been applied to cyprus now can eventually also be applied to other countries and i am very anxious to see on monday what the reaction will be in other so the european prizes countries in the eurozone because it is i think the fear that what has been agreed upon which you

speak to cyprus now might lead to. an increase again in capital flight from these other countries. and of course you can find more on the crisis hate site personnel on our website we have all the latest news and videos from around the world and here's a quick look at what we have there for you right now like drone strikes in syria according to u.s. officials the cia is boosting intelligence gathering on islamic radicals in the country in preparation for the possible arrival of trying to target later. and you can also check our web site for the latest pictures from the angry approach i think new york after the fatal police shooting of a black teenager just click away at r.t. dot com. almost a march by the trans a world war two is a thing to celebrate and also not hear about after more than a thousand s.s. veterans and supporters gathered in the capital riga for the annual rally at least

four people were detained during the march which sparked controversy and criticism that it's a glorified patient and not some. reports now from a guy. who was born in a prison in franco's fascists he and his parents were repressed by that regime so he was hurt when he learned that was what it says veterans marched through the streets of lobbyist capital riga. all of europe fought so hard to eradicate fashion in spain. where it was one state ideology you would now never see a manifestation as which glorify now it's considered shameful what happens here in riga is totally incredible and outrageous. marches by former law to an s.s. legionnaires in riga are nothing out of the ordinary since lottery became independent they've been held every year the men who once fought on the side of nazi germany are seen as freedom fighters by some here a view which divides society in this state for many years this march had been

forbidden by the city's accord decision that overturned it and the market is still so place this year the high court. decided to strike first even before the mayor had to say the court said that the march must take place and force the mayor to apologize for all the yes he had been banning this march the masterminds of this march a lot of his nationalists say they want the younger generation to embrace their history and recognize their heroes. you know what i'm especially proud to see so many young people today this is proof that we're living in a free country which had been under occupation for many years. but many in europe simply cannot understand what appreciation of freedom has to do with three year olds walking alongside former nazi troops especially given that lot is a member of the e.u. which has no second opinion on fascism. is a member of the infamous an outside force for remembrance of the locals and it's

very easy to focus on determinate economic plans that on one side you are members of such an unbroken organisation to remember what happened seventy years ago in order to avoid our children to repeat the mistakes of the easter week and on the other side those people from option and to lead the diversity because it's really quite easy change for the law to be as anti-fascist movement has been fighting these marches for a decade with no success they fear this movement is getting stronger as last year's economy gets weak and strengthening it is a well planned government tactic chicago but it's easy to bring up nationalist ideas to divert attention from economic troubles our parliament even wanted to make march sixteenth a national holiday of the latvian army and this day had nothing to do with our army but in nazi germany march sixteenth it was called a day of heroes praising the army this speaks volumes to what our government does

about this lot is anti-fascist have sent petitions to the european commission many times to help get. marches lord with no response so far putting pictures of nazi camps and lot to be where tens of thousands spirit in the 1940's is yet another attempt to have their outrage recognized. altie reporting from riga in la to the. thousands of people across the u.k. have protest against the so-called bedroom tax which is due to hurricane in april the change will affect over hoffer million people who will lose around fourteen percent of their housing benefits if they have a spare room the government claims the new council will unleash billions of pounds annually but as all trees point to boycott reports now is the country's poorest who will pay the price.

brian rider didn't ask for a two bedroom flat when he applied for emergency accommodation it was what the council gave him it was meant to be temporary and he's now lived here for fourteen years it's more home of my dad my home we've done all the work and we've put the wood paneling on the. we stopped decorating halfway through realised there are more i have to move because i couldn't afford it and what's the point of decorating when i want to uproot but it's more hard not all of my. it will upset me to move on but bryan who suffers from osteoporosis and can't work has little choice the government's so-called bedroom tax comes into effect from april first six hundred forty thousand social housing tenants with at least one spare room i have to cough up the cash from their already stretched budgets will move and there is friends bedroom according to the government let's fast is now officially under occupied that's because he's also got this bad dream. and as

a result he's going to have to fork out fifty pounds from his housing benefit every month in order to pay for it that's money that bryan needs to put towards food and heating so he's willing to downsize in order to avoid losing the money he so desperately needs but he's been told that there are no available properties i asked him for problems once was about six months ago for moving to a one bedroom every time i've been told her can't move me to one bedroom nevertheless westminster says the twenty three billion pound housing benefit bill needs to be slashed people are being told they should move to a smaller flat but in my constituency there are fewer than a hundred places people could move to and not fairly typical across the country as a whole if you can't move to a smaller property you can't avoid it you just have to pay the money and you're left with very very little amount just does seem very unfair the government is

saying they won't have a tax on big mansions but they are having a bedroom tax on the poorest people in the country the department for work and pensions declined to comment on the controversial policy the impending changes of course such widespread concern that the government announced the parents of those serving in the armed forces foster carers and parents of severely disabled children will now be exempt from the changes as for the rest of the body in this situation is being blocked into a corner and until the council finds him a smaller flat brian will have to take the financial hit i haven't had any suggestions from any of them about what to do if and when they do is run out and i find it hard to do which i would now realise is happening coming closer. i have no choice in the matter it has been getting even more stressful for the closer we get to the day because i just don't know what i'm going to do with what many are calling black april fast approaching critics say it's those with the least that are

being hit the hard. best. azzi kidderminster. some other stories making news around the globe this hour in pakistan twenty four soldiers have been killed and five injured when a bus skidded off a mountainous road into the deep ravine the troops were on leave from a garrison in the north of the country and officials say the big question was most likely caused by dr ira accidents like this are common in a country where many road conditions remain paul. and a female swiss tourist has been hospitalized after being gang raped in central india well when a dozen suspects have already been arrested by police the victim and her husband were in a bicycle trip when they stopped for a nice near a small village they were then a target by up to ten men armed with sticks this comes after a spate of such attacks packed public anger over the treatment of women in the country. bank with a recap of the headlines in around thirty minutes time for you before that were

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go via in northern colombia. beneath these rusty sheds the country's richest gold mines it's operated by canadian multinational corporation gran colombia gold. today the army has taken over the sector for a high risk mission. transporting the week's production to a safe location. three gold ingots over twenty kilos each.

here we have sixty eight kilos. that makes one point two million euro. in colombia gold is highly coveted by the criminal organizations. so in order to avoid an ambush the time and day of the transfer or decided at the last minute made my escape the this is the most critical moments notice and the gold leaves the factory it up got to be transported to the city of midday and it is. the ingots are carried away at a run. the soldiers mark out the course. the operation is completed in four minutes. the precious cargo takes off towards mina the regional.